Jon Cooper

Published:08:38Tuesday 06 November 2018

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A Sports Direct employee has been placed under a curfew after he stole a watch from the company’s warehouse at Shirebrook.

Chesterfield magistrates’ court heard on November 2 how Frantesak Horvarth, 41, of Edingley Avenue, Mansfield, was found guilty after a trial of stealing the Police branded watch worth £169.99 from the Sports Direct warehouse, on Meadow Lane.

Prosecuting solicitor Becky Allsop said: “Security guards received information and as a result Horvarth was the subject of a search.

“He produced a Police branded watch from his pocket and he said he had purchased it the previous week and he had the receipt at home.”

The court heard the watch still had its protective scratch cover and its empty box was recovered from a work station at the warehouse near to where Horvarth had been working.

Horvarth insisted to police that he had bought the watch and claimed he had to open boxes to check contents at the warehouse but his work role was to move cages and he was not involved in any quality control.

Following a trial Horvarth was found guilty of the theft which happened on October 31.